H. Shrikumar show off the computer chip he developed

H. Shrikumar, a computer science graduate student at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., holds a computer chip next to a matchstick at his home in Hadley, Mass., Aug. 13. Shrikumar developed and wrote the software that the chip holds, which is enough information to make a web server, possibly the smallest known. (AP Photo/Nancy Palmieri)

H. Shrikumar, a computer science graduate student at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., holds a computer chip next to a matchstick at his home in Hadley, Mass., Aug. 13. Shrikumar developed and wrote the software that the chip holds, which is enough information to make a web server, possibly the smallest known. (AP Photo/Nancy Palmieri)

H. Shrikumar, a computer science graduate student at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., holds a computer chip next to a matchstick at his home in Hadley, Mass., Aug. 13. Shrikumar developed and wrote the software that the chip holds, which is enough information to make a web server, possibly the smallest known. (AP Photo/Nancy Palmieri)